Books
BOA Editions, October 2003
Is
In Is, Wayne Dodd continues his on-going search for a poetry able to incorporate the polyphony of our culture's past, while investigating the insights and implications of quantum physics and the motion and fate of our being.
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997
The Blue Salvages
"Wayne Dodd is making poems of consequence--eloquent, deeply felt, vital--that testify to the survival of an intelligent and personal poetics in a time of frivolity and imitation." --Michael Waters
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995
Of Desire & Disorder
Wayne Dodd is not only a close and knowledgeable observer of the natural world: he brings to his observations a passionate attachment to its sensuous details. His poems bring those details forward in language of sharp physicality.
University of Iowa Press, 1992
Toward the End
of the Century:
Essays into Poetry
Poems are never merely. That is to say, they have being rather than meaning. They are their own uses. They are not resolved, they are entered.
University of Georgia Press, 1990
Echoes of the Unspoken
"Echoes of the Unspoken invites analysis of its method, for how the poems unfold is as interesting as what they say. In fact, how they unfold is what they say, or a great part of it." --Judith Kitchen
University of Georgia Press, 1986
Sometimes Music Rises
"To enter into existence's pulse, Wayne hears its music, and, listening carefully ... one may take the same musical journey. Stepping down the page as crisp thought, these lines break as alertness embodied." --David Swerdlow
Louisiana State University Press, 1980
The Names You Gave It
"Its best poems are so well done as to be almost luminescent in quality." -- Peter Stitt